Kinetic Art on YouTube

[Merlion]

It is very suitable to showcase kinetic art on YouTube.

Here is a good one. You may have seen other kinetic art, but this is like nothing you have seen. Tim Fort's Kinetic Art. Enjoy.

[mark pilato]

very cool,
thanks,
Mark

[Merlion]

Here's another good one.

It is a wind powered walking sculpture by artist Theo Jansen who I posted once. But this one seems better, more compact, perhaps a later version.

[fused]

I've always liked Tim's constructions (the tensioned/exploding popcicle sticks(?) are way cool) and have expected to see him on the Letterman Show. I'm not sure if tumbling dominoes qualifies as 'kinetic sculpture' yet, I see it as an event much like an imploding building. While you're at YouTube do a search for Diet Coke & Mentos to see another inventive performance.

Here's something totally different and fun. I do believe iron ant posed for the first pic and there's more to see if you click main (at the top).

[Thatch]

I went to see Blue Man Group in Las Vegas almost 2 years ago and the thing the set design team did with neon is simular to the time lapsed light drawings shown in those clips. With everything that was involved with that show I would put it into audience participation performance art vs a rock concert. I would rank the dominoes and the thing with the Mentos and Diet Coke into the performance art catagory too. Kinetic, yes. Artistic, yes. Art, maybe. Sculpture, no. Fun, definatly.

Thatch

[Julianna]

Amazing. I finally have a reason to waste time on YouTube! Thanks for the excellent find, Merlion.

[Merlion]

After seeing this YouTube video clip of a kinetic sculpture, I notice an additional benefit videos can bring. They can bring you the sound, i.e. if the kinetic sculpture also gives off sound. If not they can bring you the commentry.

Take a look at this video called Bingbangbong sculpture at Hampton Court 2006. It is quite creative.

And this is the website of Bingbangbong Sound Sculpture.

[fused]

There is a large sculpture installed between to buildings in north Dallas made of stainless steel pipes and wires. Visually it is somewhat relative to Kenneth Snelson except all of it's parts are synchronized by design to produce a seductive and varied harmonic hum in the wind.

This isn't kinetic sculpture, but it is similarly interesting just the same.

[Merlion]

Thanks Fused. The video that you have linked is interesting. Perhaps we can call it performance art. Even the first part of the video about the installation/construction of these houses of cards is interesting. I didn't imagine playing cards can be stacked up so high.

On the other hand, this video is not related to your first paragraph, about the large stainless steel and wire sculpture that gives of wind induced sound, is it?

[Merlion]

I've just found three interesting videos of kinetic art by artist David Roy, each of them about 1.5 min duration. The links are first, second and third. They are quite clever contraptions.

They are not too fast moving, but are speeded up for the video. At an exhibition, it is good to move slowly. One of them says it is spring winded, and each winding can go on for 15 hours.

[unigami]

Not found on YouTube, but these are some of my favorites, mechanical kinetic wave sculptures by Reuben Margolin:

Here are two quicktime videos of his "Square Wave"

http://www.reubenmargolin.com/4.clips.quick.html
http://www.reubenmargolin.com/1.take.quick.html

Here is the main page with other wave machines:
http://www.reubenmargolin.com/waves.htm

-unigami

[Merlion]

I'm afraid somehow the videos do not appear on my computer. But the still photos are interesting, especially the one showing the many wires and pulleys.

[Merlion]

Here is a very different type of kinetic art, nothing mechanical, just air. It is in a certain sense a kinetic figurative sculpture of two persons. It is stated to be an exhibit at a kinetic art museum. Enjoy.

The link is here, blow-up

[unigami]

Originally Posted by Merlion

I'm afraid somehow the videos do not appear on my computer. But the still photos are interesting, especially the one showing the many wires and pulleys.

Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQtDbybSWc

There are more if you search for his name: "Reuben Margolin"

-unigami

[Merlion]

Thanks Unigami. It works in YouTube. It is interesting to see the sculpture in motion, including the mechanisms.

Technically, the mechanisms are rows of circular eccentric cams pulling on the wires. But of course, finally what matters is the artistic effect, in this case the varying wave motion.

[BGrayArt]

Yeah, YouTube is a great place for kinetic art. I put several of my kinetic sculptures up there including my motorized rolling ball musical sculpture. Check it out at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WRqVFTRag

Cheers!
Bruce

[Merlion]

I happen to notice this simple but clever kinetic sculpture that seems to work well. The link is a 2-min video.

Kinetic Horse Sculpture

Study for a solar powered kinetic sculpture inspired partly by the work of Theo Jansen. Apart from the motor drive and crank shaft the machine is constructed entirely from paper.

[Mr. Malloy]

Yeah, there is some cool stuff out there. Kinetic, to me, is so much more powerful in real life (face to face). But I know one can say that about all sculpture or all art for that matter. Yet were here. Thanks. Ps I have been totally inspired by the kinetic sculpture of Tinguely, I am surprised that he is not mentioned here.

[anthony pittare]

Cool stuff, thanks for the links. the only problem I fins with the domino link is so much can be done with video editing that I highly doubt that the whole thing was done in one go.

Anthony Pittarelli